Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - Federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr has assured business leaders that workers at pipeline construction sites will be kept safe in the event of protests or civil disobedience. C...

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan’s premier says he knows Canadians do not support a national carbon tax so he’s started his own online petition. At a news conference on Thursday, Brad Wa...

TORONTO - A Toronto senior who used his cane to attack a fellow long-term care home resident more than three years ago was found guilty late Thursday of second-degree murder in the woman’s ...

SECHELT, B.C. - The rescue of a British Columbia woman after her SUV plunged off the Sunshine Coast Highway near Sechelt and landed in a swollen creek was “miraculous,”...

WINNIPEG - After a tough year of surgery and chemotherapy for cancer, a Winnipeg woman is preparing for her wedding day. Lisa Carson-Walton is to walk down the aisle Friday with her fianc Chris H...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A mother who drowned her newborn son in a sink before leaving her home to write a university exam has avoided time behind bars, though a judge described her actions as “abh...

OTTAWA - A comprehensive measure of Canada’s national wealth shows it has been stagnant for decades and is too heavily dependent on housing and oil and gas, says a groundbrea...

OTTAWA - An internal defence study that dismissed any plan to buy “interim” fighter jets because of “significant additional costs,” has been pulled off the National Defenc...

WINNIPEG - Five deaths this year at the Winnipeg Remand Centre are a sharp increase from previous years and internal reviews on two deaths have already been completed, documents obtained by The C...

WASHINGTON - With the nomination of retired general James (Mad Dog) Mattis as his defence secretary Thursday, Donald Trump has now named about half his cabinet. This allows some tea-leaf-rea...